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insert sections into a table to spellcheck
I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some
have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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Interesting idea, but the parts that you want people to fill
out will have to be in the protected sections, so there isn't much point in spellchecking the unprotected sections. wordnerd wrote: I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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Actually I don't care if the part the user types is protected(it's only a
blank line). I want the original form/document to maintain its integrity so users don't alter the questions. What I did was break the table up using continuous breaks (at first I didn't realize it was breaking because it just thickens the line of the table). There ended up being 70 sections, then I went through and protected all the sections I didn't want altered. All the sections that ARE NOT protected are just blank cells where they can insert text. I finally outsmarted word!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Interesting idea, but the parts that you want people to fill out will have to be in the protected sections, so there isn't much point in spellchecking the unprotected sections. wordnerd wrote: I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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Well, that's the way protected documents are *supposed* to work. You could
accomplish the same thing by inserting a text form field where you want users to insert data. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wordnerd" wrote in message ... Actually I don't care if the part the user types is protected(it's only a blank line). I want the original form/document to maintain its integrity so users don't alter the questions. What I did was break the table up using continuous breaks (at first I didn't realize it was breaking because it just thickens the line of the table). There ended up being 70 sections, then I went through and protected all the sections I didn't want altered. All the sections that ARE NOT protected are just blank cells where they can insert text. I finally outsmarted word!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Interesting idea, but the parts that you want people to fill out will have to be in the protected sections, so there isn't much point in spellchecking the unprotected sections. wordnerd wrote: I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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Would the text form field allow users to spellcheck though? That's how it
used to be set up and spell check was disabled. The suggestion I had to type it in word and copy it into the form fields didn't go over too well. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, that's the way protected documents are *supposed* to work. You could accomplish the same thing by inserting a text form field where you want users to insert data. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wordnerd" wrote in message ... Actually I don't care if the part the user types is protected(it's only a blank line). I want the original form/document to maintain its integrity so users don't alter the questions. What I did was break the table up using continuous breaks (at first I didn't realize it was breaking because it just thickens the line of the table). There ended up being 70 sections, then I went through and protected all the sections I didn't want altered. All the sections that ARE NOT protected are just blank cells where they can insert text. I finally outsmarted word!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Interesting idea, but the parts that you want people to fill out will have to be in the protected sections, so there isn't much point in spellchecking the unprotected sections. wordnerd wrote: I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...ProtectDoc.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wordnerd" wrote in message ... Would the text form field allow users to spellcheck though? That's how it used to be set up and spell check was disabled. The suggestion I had to type it in word and copy it into the form fields didn't go over too well. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Well, that's the way protected documents are *supposed* to work. You could accomplish the same thing by inserting a text form field where you want users to insert data. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "wordnerd" wrote in message ... Actually I don't care if the part the user types is protected(it's only a blank line). I want the original form/document to maintain its integrity so users don't alter the questions. What I did was break the table up using continuous breaks (at first I didn't realize it was breaking because it just thickens the line of the table). There ended up being 70 sections, then I went through and protected all the sections I didn't want altered. All the sections that ARE NOT protected are just blank cells where they can insert text. I finally outsmarted word!!! "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Interesting idea, but the parts that you want people to fill out will have to be in the protected sections, so there isn't much point in spellchecking the unprotected sections. wordnerd wrote: I have an online form that people need to fill out using form fields--some have text, others have numbers, and some are check boxes. People complained that they couldn't spell check they text boxes. So...I am not word savvy enough to use Macros, but I want to break up the sections and protect certain ones and then spellcheck will work with the unprotected sections. HELP! |
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